The exciting programme for the inaugural New Zealand Human Rights Festival includes the 2005 Academy Award winning documentary, Born into Brothels, the radical, entertaining Resistencia - Hip Hop in Colombia, and some of the finest documentaries currently touring the globe. Further highlights include high profile British director Ken Loach's dramatic feature, Bread and Roses starring Adrien Brody (currently in New Zealand filming King Kong); and the controversial study of the September 11 hijackers, Hamburg Cell, produced by New Zealander Finola Dwyer.

www.humanrightsfilmfest.net.nz

Auckland 12-19 May Academy Cinema
Christchurch 13-15 May Regent on Worcester
Wellington 25 May-1 June Paramount TheatreThe exciting programme for the inaugural New Zealand Human Rights Festival includes the 2005 Academy Award winning documentary, Born into Brothels, the radical, entertaining Resistencia - Hip Hop in Colombia, and some of the finest documentaries currently touring the globe. Further highlights include high profile British director Ken Loach's dramatic feature, Bread and Roses starring Adrien Brody (currently in New Zealand filming King Kong); and the controversial study of the September 11 hijackers, Hamburg Cell, produced by New Zealander Finola Dwyer.

www.humanrightsfilmfest.net.nz

Auckland 12-19 May Academy Cinema
Christchurch 13-15 May Regent on Worcester
Wellington 25 May-1 June Paramount TheatreA host of other thought provoking and inspiring features, films and shorts display the dignity, courage and humour of ordinary people in extraordinary situations, withstanding tyranny and outrage to protect their human rights. The festival gives us all a chance to see these films on the big screen.